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Nov 27th 9:30pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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In another significant leap forward in the Federal Communications Commission's campaign to get unlicensed broadband, or "white space" devices, into the market, the FCC says that it is now accepting proposals from companies that want to run the databases...
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Nov 27th 7:31pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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The US Department of Justice announced [PDF] today that a California man has pled guilty to counterfeit computer chips to the US military. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal, and he faces up to five years in...
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Nov 27th 5:06pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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Have you ever met a PC gamer in person? Your experiences may be different than mine, but they tend to resemble normal human beings. Some may even live in your very home. Most of my friends are PC gamers, and they buy their games, have fun playing online,...
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Nov 27th 5:00pm by jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil)
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After a year without any updates, the developers responsible for the popular video transcoder Handbrake have released version 0.9.4 of the open-source software. With such a small change in the version number, it would be easy to assume that there isn't...
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Nov 27th 3:19pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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Consumers aren't the only ones enjoying the PlayStation 3's recent price drop. The US military has announced plans to buy 2,200 more of the game consoles, so that they can massively beef up the processing power of an existing, PS3-based supercomputer. A...
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Nov 26th 1:30am by editors@arstechnica.com (Ars Staff)
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For those living in the US, this time of year brings visions of bargain-priced gadgets and big box stores opening their doors to throngs of shoppers at some ungodly hour. But Black Friday is always preceded by the one day where we get to sit down, watch...
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Nov 25th 11:27pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool. The company sent off "Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity" to companies hosting websites that...
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Nov 25th 10:51pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Apple's iPhone changed the way we think about mobile Web access by giving us the "real" Internet via its Mobile Safari browser. Since its introduction, smartphone vendors have scrambled to offer a comparable browsing experience, generally by building a...
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Nov 25th 10:25pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Australia and Canada have both approved the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal, making them the first regulators in the world to sign off on it, giving Microhoo two fewer antitrust authority groups to worry about. "Microsoft and Yahoo!...
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Nov 25th 8:43pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable companies to shut down the analog streams on video-on-demand movie programming. As Ars readers know, we've been covering this issue for a while. But...
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Nov 25th 7:18pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Companies that make the whole widget, like Apple, are able to nudge consumers towards buying new hardware by limiting the software features that work on older models. Amazon, which makes both the hardware and software for its Kindle e-book readers,...
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Nov 25th 5:48pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla's Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with the goal of turning it...
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Nov 25th 4:15pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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Despite the fact that Apple constantly "encourages" users to back up their music, people still often find themselves in the awkward predicament of needing to download their entire libraries back off of their iPods. Maybe they suffered a catastrophic hard...
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Nov 25th 2:31pm by andrew.webster@arstechnica.com (Andrew Webster)
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"This would make a good intro for your article." That's Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development for Valve. You know, the guys who make Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and a little service called Steam. We're wandering around a packed hotel in downtown...
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Nov 25th 4:20am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country...